Calm

Dorian stretched his neck as much as he could to look at his sister. He hadn't realized yet, but he had missed her. As well as the others. He smiled and asked "How are you doing lately?"

Emily stopped and turned around, looking at Dorian weirdly. She asked "What's up with you?" Dorian smiled and said "Nothing, I just want to know how you are doing. Is it strange for a brother to care about his sister?"

Emily rolled her eyes and turned to the kitchen again as she said "Nothing new really. I don't really have the time to do anything else than study." Dorian went back to his computer and asked "Do you regret?"

Emily replied "No. I knew since the beginning it would be hard. Are you sure you are okay?" Dorian chuckled and said "Never better. So you don't have any problem?"

Dorian heard the sound of cereals being poured as Emily said "Why? You will protect your big sister?" Dorian smiled evilly, before returning to normal and saying "I just want to say, if you ever get into some troubles, don't hesitate to come see me."

Emily approached and sat on the sofa next to Dorian's couch and said "I doubt I even have the time to create troubles for myself, but sure." Dorian smiled and said no more, tossing the TV's controller to her.

Emily caught it and said "Great throw kid." Dorian looked at her with a smile but stayed silent. As for Emily, she powered the TV on, but she stared at Dorian while eating her cereals.

After a moment, she asked "You got a girlfriend? Is that why you are acting weird?" Dorian snorted "No, still happily single. What about you, how is it going with Thomas?"

Emily shrugged "Nothing special." Dorian smiled and asked "Still stuck up?" She looked at him warningly and said "Don't say that." Dorian smiled even more, but he remained silent. Her sister had been dating this guy, Thomas, for a month or two now.

Actually, he was the only one in the family who knew about it, and it was because of an accident. Once, Dorian was shopping for some clothes when he ran into them. Then, he ate with them under Thomas' invitation.

That's when Dorian learned that he was really arrogant. Not talking about his way to order people around, just the look in his eyes was terrible. Personally, he didn't like the guy, but he didn't want to get in conflict with his sister over an idiot, so he kept the appearances.

When they were in private though, he would insult him a bit. After all, who does he think he is to date his sister? Just because his father is the CEO of some company doesn't mean he can get everything he wants.

But Dorian had to force himself to stop thinking about him, as he began wondering whether he could tear him apart bare handed, and that wasn't good.

He focused back on his computer and said "I'm fine, stop staring at me. I just found a passion, so I'm in a good mood."

Emily smiled triumphantly and said "I knew it, there is indeed something. Tell me, what's this passion of yours?"

Dorian said "Not telling." Emily squinted her eyes and made a funny face, which she thought was scary, but Dorian ignored her. Instead, he was looking at guns online.

He wondered, could he take items from Earth to Dreamland? So he asked Carla. Again, she was quick to answer.

[Carla: You can take items from your original world to Dreamland, but they have a limit. Again it depends on your strength, but Evolvers are limited to Green items.]

Then, it could be interesting to take a gun with him. Dorian lacked a way to attack from far away, and a gun could be a good choice for this. Or, he could take some throwing knives. He favored more the throwing knives as he already has the corresponding ability to the Adept level.

But it still helped to look at the different guns online. Even though he didn't use them, others did, and it could help to be able to differentiate between them. For example, knowing which rifle can is a semi automatic, and which one can spray bullets like crazy.

And it didn't ask a lot of work from him as with an Intelligence of 30, as he didn't have his equipments, his memory was incredibly high, so he only needed to look at the weapons for ten seconds before memorizing it.

When he was finished looking at the weapons, Dorian deleted the historic in case anyone checked. He knew people talented enough could still see what he looked at, but there was no such person in his family.

Dorian didn't buy the throwing knives online though because that would really be different from just looking at weapons' characteristics. Dorian placed his computer on the table next to him and got up.

He stretched a little and said "I'm going to the grocery store, you need something?" Emily asked "Is there any coffee left?" Dorian replied "No, I think mom and dad will go to the mall today or tomorrow."

Emily said "Then take some. Same as usual. Thanks." He nodded and went upstairs to his room, changed himself and got out of the house. Even though it was about 9AM, it felt quite warm outside since they were in April. Now that he thought of it, his birthday would be in a month. Well, more than that for him.

As he made his way to the grocery store, Dorian remained on the lookout for any danger. He was curious, would he meet a Dreamer?

However, as he reached the store nothing happened. That was to be expected, most Dreamers should be staying in Dreamland, either in Eden or in a mission.

Dorian bought what he needed, and came back home. He thought he would be disappointed with not encountering anything, but was surprised to find out he didn't feel much. Looks like calm suited him too now.

Dorian cam back home, and saw that both his parents were up. Dorian smiled and greeted them. Unlike his sister they were both fully awake, his father groaning about the lack of coffee and his mother reading the newspapers.

Dorian first gave his father his coffee and went to seat with his family. As he sat his mother asked "Have you thought about what we talked?"

Dorian looked at her confused. What did they talk about? Searching in his memory, he remembered. What did he want to do after high school?

Dorian smiled. Before, this was so important, it determined youngsters' future and many would get stressed over it. And yet now it seemed so unimportant… Anyway, there remained about 2 months of school left, so about 7 or 8 missions.

Following the evolution of his strength, in 7 or 8 missions he should at least become a Transcendent, or even the realm above that if he was lucky. By that time, he should already be nearing the peak of Earth's strength. Then, school, jobs, universities… they wouldn't really matter anymore.

By then, he should be strong enough to have some authority in the Hope Empire, so he should be able to get a fake job from them to explain some things and easy up his life.